I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland (1928)

Original title

Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland

Directed by

Max Mack

Genre

silent film

Country

Germany

Rating

9.0 of 10 from 1 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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How it feels

A silent film from 1928 about loss of homeland. It follows characters dealing with displacement and longing for what is gone.

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What happens

I Once Had a Beautiful Homeland (German: Ich hatte einst ein schönes Vaterland) is a 1928 German silent film directed by Max Mack and starring Leo Peukert, Grete Reinwald, and Ernst Rückert. The film's art direction was by August Rinaldi. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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• More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.